superintendent of the year nominations

Understanding to adopt Worthington’s Teacher Evaluation System (WOTES) in May 2013. The state framework requires that a teacher annually be given a final summative evaluation and a rating in one of four categories (Excellent, Effective, Developing or Ineffective) and that this rating be reported to the Ohio Department of Education. Based upon their rating and feedback from the evaluation, a teacher either writes or updates a professional growth plan or works with their district on an improvement plan and receives additional support. In the Worthington Teacher Evaluation System, a teacher’s final summative rating will be determined by two equally weighted components: 50% Teacher Performance and 50% Student Growth Measures (attached supporting documents). The Teacher Performance component is based on the Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession and includes evidence of teacher effectiveness based on formal observations of teacher practice. For example, Worthington administrators will use evidence gathered by completing a preconference, two formal observations of at least 30 minutes, multiple walk-throughs of 10-20 minutes, and other informal observations, which will be taken into account. The Student Growth Measures component utilizes evidence of student academic progress to determine a rating. This component classifies teachers into three categories based on the type of student growth data available: In 2013, Worthington teachers with value-added data (4th- 8th-grade reading and math teachers and science teachers in grades 5 and 8) will use Value-Added data for 25% of student growth and an SLO for 25% of student growth. Value-Added data is from the year previous to a teacher’s evaluation, (i.e., the 2012-2013 Value-Added data will be used for the 2013-2014 evaluation); Teachers with Ohio Department of Education approved vendor assessment test scores that can be used to generate growth data. In Worthington, Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is an approved vendor assessment. For teachers with MAP data, 10% of student growth will be from MAP data, and an SLO will be used for 40% of student growth; And teachers with neither Value- Added data nor vendor assessment scores will use the Student Learning Objectives. Worthington teachers who teach in non-tested grades and subjects (i.e., fine arts, music, and wellness) will utilize SLOs to measure student growth through district- or teacher-developed assessments or portfolios of student work, which will constitute 50% of student growth. As a summary of my personal involvement to improve my professionalism and that of the district overall, I believe that principal evaluation should mirror teacher evaluation. The above information outlines how I took part in the Ohio Principal Evaluation System Training in August 2011, making me credentialed to evaluate building principals. Fifty percent of a principal’s evaluation will be based upon feedback from their supervisor on their performance, and fifty percent of the evaluation will be based on the student growth data from the principal’s school, determined by test scores and the value-added calculation used in school district report cards from the state. Value-Added is designed to measure whether a student has learned a year’s worth of material in a given year. Principals also will be designated with a final rating of Accomplished, Skilled, Developing, or Ineffective. These above initiatives, under my leadership, mean that Worthington Schools was and is strategically poised for the new regulations and evaluation system.

Community Involvement The steep cuts to education after the deepest recession in 70 years have negatively impacted Worthington Schools, however we are using the recessionary reductions as an opportunity to

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